14. January 2009 by justdanika.

Assignment Art160-Design a Cake

Really you are going to give me a masters in engineering to design and make a cake?

Works for me…

Chocolate Stout Cake…made with Guinness. Covered in a chocolate Guinness glaze topped with a cream cheese frosting. Served upright in a pint glass (or shot glass) and eaten to your hearts content.

Happy St Patty’s Day…just a little early.

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18. December 2008 by justdanika.

Festivity, Ceremony, Anger

This a video compilation (its a little furry) of an art60 project I chose to do.

Assignment: Take a simple repeating shape to create 3 compositions that represent festivity, ceremony and anger.

So I took this, did some research and then used a bunch of squares to create a 3D composition that reacted to light. Whats neat is that as the light transveresed over or under or around it, the level of of festivity, ceremony and anger changed.

Check it out, its not the best video (well photography) but it gets my point out to you.

oh yea, if you have any recommendations on sound/music i could add, I would love to hear it.

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17. October 2008 by justdanika.

I honestly thought my professor was crazy when he assigned us a project to paint 3 sets of 100 objects and arrange them in

• Dark to Light
• Saturated to Desaturated
• Warm to Cool

So for 13 hours I painted 100 different colors, 3 times each. This was no small feat…

I am not even a little exaggerating the work I did. I learned a ton about making tints, hues and tones by adding white and/or black to my 8 base colors. Then I combined my colors to create some beautiful colors and some not so beautiful colors.

Arranging them was a hefty task as well. Trying to decide if a dull green or a dull blue is more desaturated can make you go blind in fact. Thank god for the laser-camm allowing me to cut 101 of the exact same shaped holes for me to pop my ice cube trays into…

It actually turned out…beautiful.

Above: Warm to Cool

Above: Saturated to Desaturated

Above: Dark to Light

Final Objects Pre-Arranging:

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2. October 2008 by justdanika.

Did you ever think about how you only put 3 colors into your inkjet printer but still manage to get a huge range of colors?

For my Design 1: Fundamental Visual Language (Art60) project this week I actually became an inkjet printer. Armed with a Cyan, Magenta and Yellow pen I created an orange, purple and green picture.

Above: Final Purple, Orange & Green

Above: Cyan & Magenta

Above: Yellow & Magenta

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